Results 1-20 of 22 for climate change speaker:Alistair Burt

Debate on the Address: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence (23 Nov 2009)

Alistair Burt: ...for new Members of this House in due course, is presented by academics, commentators, diplomats and those from business. It pulled no punches about the in-tray of Congress and the President-from climate change to terrorism through nuclear proliferation and economic chaos. The world's expectations of the President have been high. The fact that the "re-set" button from the Bush era was...

Debate on the Address: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence (23 Nov 2009)

Alistair Burt: ...In two other areas, I hope that what is currently perceived as the President's caution will not drift into more dangerous inactivity. In both areas, our Government have crucial responsibilities. On climate change, I do not believe we should allow our expectations of Copenhagen to be dashed completely. Perhaps some lessening of overblown expectations was needed-Copenhagen was never going to...

Energy and Climate Change: Maldives (5 Nov 2009) has video

Alistair Burt: When he last discussed with the Government of the Maldives the contribution of the UK towards reducing the risks to that country arising from climate change.

Energy and Climate Change: Maldives (5 Nov 2009) has video

Alistair Burt: ...think we were all moved by, and not a little admiring of, the recent cabinet meeting held by His Excellency President Mohamed Nasheed underwater to highlight the plight of his country and show what climate change will mean to them. Following an initiative this year, when he said that his country would go carbon neutral by 2019, the President said that that in itself would not decarbonise...

Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

Alistair Burt: ...excitement of being in different places. The hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey and I were in South Africa in some awful times, and we went back to South Africa after the transition and change. We had stood together as the Caspers cruised up and down a road in Crossroads just after a camp had been evicted, and some years later, in 1999, I went back as an election observer and...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions: Housing (4 Nov 2008)

Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assistance his Department makes available under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Targets Scheme to park home residents.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (4 Nov 2008)

Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assistance his Department makes available under the Warm Front Scheme to park home residents.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (27 Oct 2008)

Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much was spent under the Warm Front Scheme on improving the energy efficiency of park home residents in 2006-07.

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Israel (20 May 2008)

Alistair Burt: ...the lead of the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies), who opened the debate in such a measured and interesting manner, we are in for an interesting few minutes. I begin from an unchanged position: as a friend of Israel and as someone who visited it as a student. I carry many memories of that land from a number of visits over the past years. However, like all friends of...

Royal Assent: The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (20 Mar 2008)

Alistair Burt: ...make. They can contribute so much from their history and background, and I very much look forward to their joining. My final point relates to future development. In the debate we have spoken about climate change, but we have not spoken a great deal about pressure on other resources, which is becoming frightening. Because it will affect the Commonwealth so much, I shall ask the Minister at...

Public Bill Committee: Housing and Regeneration Bill: New Clause 3 (17 Jan 2008)

Alistair Burt: That is not entirely fair. I have asked oral questions on the housing market renewal initiative. I remember one exchange with the former Deputy Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott), in which the whole issue was swatted away. He said, first, that the Tories did not understand the north of England, and secondly, that we had got it all wrong. Some...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 29 — Reduction of regulatory burdens (17 May 2007)

Alistair Burt: ...in their area—targets that go beyond the national targets. The Government could extend discretion to the local level, enabling local people to express opinions on the vital issues of climate change and conservation. We should bear in mind the strictures of the Minister's colleague, the Minister for Housing and Planning. When we discussed home information packs yesterday, she made the...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Treatment (18 May 2006)

Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what representations he has received from the Institute of Civil Engineers on the potential impact on climate change of improving the way in which waste is treated; and if he will make a statement.

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

Alistair Burt: Will my right hon. Friend advise me on an area in which growth is evident and in which a response to climate change issues would mean a great deal? Given the new building and development that is taking place around the country, does he believe that a certain percentage of new building in this country should include sustainable energy facilities, such as solar panels and domestic wind...

Immigration and Asylum (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...the insurance. It might mean that the taxpayer bears a cost for the whole fiasco instead of the people who should have insured it. Again, that is an outstanding waste of resources. How have procedures changed in the Home Office to ensure that such a reckless and expensive response to a problem cannot happen again? Why were they not considered sufficiently significant to be detailed in the...

MR. Ross Donovan (20 Jul 2004)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...for Silver Spoon on an energy recovery system and developed a specialty in such matters. Aware of legislation such as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997, the climate change levy and landfill tax, together with the rising cost—in all senses of the word—of fossil fuels, he was persuaded that a new market existed for alternative heating...

Fair Trade (25 Jun 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...The debt and fair trade issues that they have raised are familiar to almost all of those who will take part in this debate, but the campaigners have prosecuted those issues with a fervour that has changed the political agenda. The culmination of that in the lobby this weekend will be important to all of us. Most of us will have a chance to speak to the campaigners and I commend my local...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (14 Apr 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...businesses. Why did she reject the recommendations in the Federation of Small Businesses' Budget submission to rescind the increases to national insurance contributions and for a full review of the climate change levy? Does she not understand the damage that both those measures are doing to small businesses?

Economy and Trade and Industry (18 Nov 2002)

Mr Alistair Burt: No Conservative Member denied the problems and issues affecting manufacturing industry in relation to the global climate, but our point was that manufacturing had raised several specific issues that had caused it problems and had been laid at the Government's door, from national insurance to the climate change levy. The Government cannot blame world economic conditions for that. Why do not...

Economy and Trade and Industry (18 Nov 2002)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...those skills. The agency workers directive will make it more difficult for them to be employed, and for companies to employ them. Where does the Loyal Address show any concern about that? The climate change levy continues to have a disproportionate impact on manufacturing. It appears from surveys that Government measures are not encouraging even those hit by the levy to do anything about...